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RONALD LEE HOVIS
Private First Class · U.S. Army
January 23, 1948 – December 18, 1968
Service recordRonald Lee Hovis, of Mooresville, Indiana, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on December 18, 1968, in Bien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 36W, Line 40 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 36W · Line 40
Names are inscribed in the order of loss, starting at Panel 1E at the apex and ending at Panel 1W. At the Memorial, find the panel number at the base and count down from the top line.
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Personnel Specialist (71H)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 11 ARMORED CAV
- Born
- January 23, 1948
- Home of record
- Mooresville, Indiana (Morgan County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 18, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Bien Hoa
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
22 names on the Wall carry the date December 18, 1968; four of them were lost in Bien Hoa Province. In December 1968, 855 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “11 ARMORED CAV”, his unit in the record, lost 10 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 36W, Line 40
- JOHN JOSEPH GOTT JRPetty Officer Third Class · December 18, 1968
- DONALD ALBERT KASKIStaff Sergeant · December 18, 1968
- BENJAMIN CARLTON LARABEESergeant · December 18, 1968
- CARL JOSEPH METCALF JRCorporal · December 18, 1968
Same unit, same day
- NORMAN HARVEY CLARKSpecialist Four · Panel 36W, Line 39
- RICKY FAY COSSEYSpecialist Four · Panel 36W, Line 39
- CHARLES MARION DUMDEIPrivate First Class · Panel 36W, Line 39
From Mooresville
- HAROLD DUANE COLLINSCorporal · September 2, 1968
- LESLIE TOBIAS HAMMACKStaff Sergeant · November 20, 1969
Source. U.S. Department of Defense, Defense Casualty Analysis System, Vietnam Conflict Extract Data File (as of April 29, 2008), Records of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Record Group 330, National Archives (NAID 2240992). Panel and line as recorded in that file. This page presents the official record and its historical context; no biography has been written for him yet. See something wrong? Report a correction.